February, 2012

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Charles Sterling Bio

Charles Sterling aka "Chuck" has over 15 years of Developer tools experience at Microsoft. He came to Microsoft from being a marine biologist working for the United States National Marine Fisheries doing marine mammal research on the Bering Sea. An MCSE and MCSD, he started out at Microsoft in developer support focusing on FOXPRO, Visual Basic and the platform SDK, then worked as an engineer for the database teams on ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), and specializing in Microsoft SQL Server. From there Charles took a position with the Solutions Integration Escalation Team, which focused on assisting Microsoft customers with the integration of disparate software technologies into viable enterprise solutions, on this team Charles focused on Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) doing numerous talks at conferences, writing papers and teaching classes on the topic. Charles’ role in Redmond before moving to Australia for the last seven years was the product manager for the .NET Framework. Chuck is currently back in Redmond working as Program Manager in the Visual Studio Team System Team.

A couple of days ago I posted I was presenting at: Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Developer Day Feb 18th 2012 at Hyderabad This was my first foreign user group since Australia and always find it interesting how different cultures run their user groups. ...

One of my top MVPs is changing roles to a leadership position and was asking about how to enable community. Specifically if he could focus on three areas to enable community what would they be…. Must admit I hadn’t really thought of my role in those terms...